The Best Of Twelve Nights In Hollywood includes recordings from Ella's 1961 and 1962 dates at the Crescendo nightclub in Hollywood, California. She was, says The New York Times, "more relaxed, swinging and adventurous, across a wider span of rhythms and moods, than on the dozens of other albums that hit the bins in her lifetime.... [T]he woman exuded joy in nearly every note she sang. Yet the level on these sessions soared higher and plumbed deeper."